Adam schaefer



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A. S'GHAEPER.

SPINALGORSET. v

- Patented June 2, 1891.

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ADAM SCHAEFER, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY.

VSPINAL CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,328, dated June 2,1891. l

Application filed April 27, 1891. Serial No. 390,541.A (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADAM SCHAEFER, of the city of Hamburg, in the Empire of Germany,

as spinal supporting-corsets 5 and it consists Y in the improvement hereinafter described and claimed for the purpose of ,enabling the corset to support the neck, and thus hold the body erect.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an elevation of the back of the improved corset. Fig. 2 is a section of part thereof at right angles to Fig. l on the line x x of that figure. Fig. 3 is a back view of the apparatus which constitutes the improveinent,illus trating how the said apparatus in use does not materially interfere with the proper movement of the body, While the body continues to be supported in the manner required even when in an inclined or bent position. v Fig. 4 is a cross-section on line y y, Fig. l.

On the back end of each of the two side pieces H I-I, forming the corset, is fixed a rod s s,projecting upwardly from the upper edge of the corset. These rods s s are bent somewhat toward each other and slightly in a for- Ward direction to conform to the proper outline of the shoulders, and terminate at the neck of the wearer, where they are provided with small studs 71o", on which the ends of a band 7c, encircling the neck of the wearer, are fastened. The rods s s are likewise provided with the flange-headed studsbb, on the shanks of which the plate p moves, connecting the two rods s s, the shanks of the said studs passing, respectively, through the slots c o in the plate p, so that the rods s s are free to be moved to or from each other or to move relatively to each other, as in Fig. 3, but are held in the same plane, or substantially so, by the plate p by reason of the studs b'b holding said plate liat upon the rods s s', with very little play between the surfaces in contact. rIhe inner faces of the rods s s are covered by protecting pads or lining t.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is*

The combination, with a corset, of the two rods s s', projecting upward from the back thereof, the band k, connected with the upper parts of said rods for encircling the neck, and the slotted plate p, connected with said rods below the said band, all substantially as herein described, for the purpose set forth.

ADAM SCHAEFER. Witnesses:

F. ENGEL, H. WITT. 

